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Chapter 113 I would rather bear the pain and kill him! Sun Quan: What you fear will come true. Do you really want to humiliate me?
Zhou Tai accepted the order and turned around to take his leave and get off the boat.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered something and turned back to ask in a low voice:
"My Lord, the situation is urgent. If I cannot rescue Miss Nabu in time, please tell me what to do?"

Sun Quan was silent.

After hesitating for a moment, Sun Quan's eyes flashed with coldness, and he gave a two-word answer in a deep voice:
"Kill him!"

Zhou Tai was startled, then immediately understood.

Our lord is decisive and ruthless. He would rather bear the pain of killing the young lady of the Bu family than allow her to fall into the hands of Liu Jun.

"I understand. I will do my best to bring Prefect Bu and his sister out.

Zhou Tai hurriedly took his leave.

Two ships left, and a group of people broke away from the fleet and rushed towards the south bank.

"Liu Bei, I will come back sooner or later and attack Jingzhou again."

"For the shame of three defeats, I, Sun Quan, swear by the river that I will repay you double sooner or later!"

Sun Quan looked towards Jingzhou, gritted his teeth and made a solemn oath.

...

South bank, Wuchang City.

On the city wall, the newly appointed prefect Bu Zhi was inspecting and supervising the construction work along the wall, and a young girl followed beside him.

"Master, Wuchang City is newly built, and my prefectural residence is also in its infancy. It's far less comfortable than our home in Moling. How about I send you back to Moling in a few days? Don't keep me here and suffer."

Bu Zhi had a kind face like an elder brother and spoke to the girl beside him.

"Our parents died young, leaving us without an elder to take care of us. Your sister-in-law has been gone for years, and you haven't remarried yet. It's so lonely and desolate when I return to Moling."

Master Bu Lian sighed softly, then smiled and said:
"I'd better stay in Wuchang to accompany my brother. I know medicine, and I can be of use to my brother if he has a headache or a fever. When you find me a sister-in-law, I will return to Moling to accompany her."

Bu Zhi was stunned, then he realized that his sister was urging him to get married.

"You little girl, you don't even have a place to stay, and yet you're worrying about your brother?"

Bu Zhi smiled unhappily, but then changed the subject:
"Speaking of which, you are not young anymore. As the saying goes, men should get married when they are old enough, and women should get married when they are old enough. It's time for me to find a husband for you."

"When the Lord passed through Wuchang a few days ago, he mentioned to me that he was very kind to you, my little sister..."

Before she could finish her words, Bu Lianshi's expression suddenly changed, and she pointed at the river with her bare hand:
"Brother, look quickly, is that our Jiangdong navy?"

Bu Zhi looked back and saw hundreds of warships rushing upstream as if fleeing.

Judging from the flag, it is indeed their own navy.

Sun Quan’s banner was among them!
Bu Zhi's expression suddenly changed, and he exclaimed:

"This is our navy that attacked Xiakou. Why are they suddenly back, and in this state?"

Master Bu Lian's watery eyes turned a few times and she said hurriedly:

"Brother, could it be that the Marquis of Wu suffered a defeat at Xiakou and his army retreated?"

Bu Zhi's heart skipped a beat and his nerves immediately tensed up.

My sister is quick-witted. Sun Quan is in such a state, what else can he do but return in defeat?

And it will definitely be a great defeat.

"Liu Bei's main naval forces are in Baqiu, currently under attack from the Jiangling navy and the Jingnan coalition forces. The enemy forces at Xiakou consist of no more than ten thousand infantrymen."

"My lord, at most you failed to capture Xiakou and returned empty-handed. How could you possibly return in crushing defeat?"

"Little sister, stop making random guesses!"

Bu Zhi kept shaking his head, immediately denying Bu Lianshi's guess.

Bu Lianshi's eyebrows moved slightly, but she said:
"But the two previous times the Duke of Wu attacked Jingzhou, he had the upper hand, but each time he suffered a major setback at Xiakou, and even lost the life of General Cheng."

"I heard that Liu Xuande had an extremely powerful military advisor named Xiao He. It seems that he was a disciple of some immortal and possessed supernatural means. The Marquis of Wu was defeated twice at Xiakou, both times because of this man's schemes."

"If that's the case, who knows, maybe the Marquis of Wu has fallen for this man's trick again this time?"

Bu Zhi was speechless.

What my sister said makes sense. Xiao He has long been famous in Jiangdong. Everyone knows that his wisdom is unfathomable. Even Zhou Yu has been fooled by him several times.

But Bu Zhi couldn't understand. Even if Xiao He was unfathomable, what brilliant strategy could he have that could allow 10,000 infantrymen at Xiakou to defeat Sun Quan's tens of thousands of navy and send them fleeing in disgrace?

Just when he was puzzled, the noise of the soldiers on the city wall suddenly turned into screams of terror.

Upstream, following closely behind their own navy, countless Liu army warships were in pursuit.

Sun Quan did not dare to enter Fankou Wuchang, so he threw them on the shore and continued to flee downstream.

More than a hundred warships of Liu's army quickly turned and landed, and with a crushing force, they broke through the Fancheng fortress, whose morale had collapsed.

Immediately afterwards, Liu's army, which had landed, rushed towards the new city of Wuchang in an overwhelming manner.

"Brother, the Marquis of Wu has abandoned us and escaped. What should we do?"

Bu Lianshi turned pale and looked at Bu Zhi in panic.

Bu Zhi frowned deeply, thought for a moment, and sighed:

"Our Wuchang City is not yet complete, and there are less than a thousand men in the city. It is impossible to defend it."

"The Marquis of Wu is being chased too quickly by Liu Bei and has no time to come and pick us up. We can only find a way out on our own."

After saying this, Bu Zhi gathered his men and prepared to abandon the city and escape from the east gate.

Just as the city gate was about to open, Zhou Tai, with more than a hundred men and horses, finally arrived breathlessly.

"General Zhou, what exactly is going on? Why did our lord suffer such a crushing defeat?"

"What about Liu Bei's navy on the river?"

As soon as Bu Zhi saw Zhou Tai, he shouted at him.

Zhou Tai sighed and could only briefly recount how Liu Bei defeated the two armies of Jingzhou at Baqiu, and how Guan Yu's navy fought back to Xiakou and dealt a heavy blow to his own army.

"Cai Mao had 30,000 naval troops, yet he was defeated by Guan Yu and had his head and body separated?"

Bu Zhi took a deep breath and was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

"I don't have time to explain in detail. The Marquis of Wu ordered me to take Prefect Bu and his sister back to Chaisang. Come with me!"

Zhou Tai urged anxiously.

Bu Zhi did not dare to ask any more questions. He immediately helped Bu Lianshi onto the carriage, and then he and Zhou Tai led the army out of the city gate and headed east.

It's too late.

Dozens of warships rushed onto the river beach east of Wuchang City. Thousands of Liu's navy soldiers landed and rushed towards the Jiangdong soldiers who were fleeing through the east gate.

Obviously, this was Guan Yu's prior deployment, to annihilate all the defenders of Fankou and Wuchang Jiangdong on land, and not let a single one escape to Chaisang.

The ambush begins.

The fleeing Jiangdong army and the blocking Liu army fought outside the east gate of Wuchang City.

The soldiers defending Wuchang were not elite, and their numbers were outnumbered by Liu's army, so how could they be a match for him? After a short fight, the Jiangdong army was left with the screams of ghosts and wolves, and the situation was critical.

Although Zhou Tai was a brave warrior and killed more than ten soldiers of Liu's army, he was unable to reverse the defeat.

"If I break out alone, they won't be able to stop me. But if I bring the Bu brothers and sisters with me, they'll become a burden and we'll all have to die here..."

Zhou Tai was extremely anxious. He glanced back at the carriage where Bu Lianshi was and suddenly remembered what Sun Quan had told him before.

"Kill him!"

These two words suddenly exploded in my mind.

Zhou Tai made up his mind, rode his horse back to the front of the carriage with his sword, and slashed with his sword.

"Crack!"

The carriage door was cut in half.

Bu Lianshi, who was in the car, saw Zhou Tai's ferocious look and was so frightened that her face turned pale and she shrank back.

"General Zhou, what do you want to do?"

Bu Lianshi had a premonition of something and asked with a trembling voice.

Zhou Tai's face was as hard as steel, and he said in a deep voice:

"The Marquis of Wu has instructed us not to allow you to fall into the hands of the enemy and bring shame upon him!"

"Miss Bu, I'm sorry."

After saying that, Zhou Tai raised his sword and prepared to chop towards Bu Lianshi.

Bu Lianshi was horrified and her body froze in place, watching Zhou Tai's blade coming down on her head.

"Wei Yan is here. Those who surrender will be spared, and those who resist will be killed!"

A loud shout sounded.

Another group of troops came charging towards them from the front, and the leading general was Wei Yan.

Zhou Tai was startled, and with the blade hanging in the air, he looked up involuntarily.

Just when he was distracted, Bu Lianshi came back to her senses, turned around and ordered the coachman to drive the carriage back to Wuchang City immediately.

The driver hurriedly cracked the whip and urged the carriage to flee towards the city gate.

By the time Zhou Tai reacted and wanted to kill him, Wei Yan had already galloped towards him with his sword in hand.

If he goes to chase and kill Bu Lianshi again, he will be intercepted by Wei Yan and his life will be in danger!

"Damn it!"

Zhou Tai cursed inwardly and had to give up chasing Bu Lianshi. He turned his horse around and broke out to the east.

After a while.

Bu Lianshi, who escaped the disaster, reunited with his brother Bu Zhi and fled back to Wuchang City with the defeated soldiers.

"Brother, the Marquis of Wu actually ordered Zhou Tai to kill—"

"Little sister, listen to me!"

Bu Zhi interrupted Bu Lianshi and said sternly:

"I will lead the remaining soldiers to defend Wuchang City. You must return home immediately, change into a maid's clothes and hide. Don't run around!"

Before Bu Lianshi could speak, Bu Zhi had already ordered several of his personal followers to escort the carriage and escape from the city gate.

Bu Zhi took a deep breath, tried his best to calm his mind, and shouted:
"Listen up, my fellow Jiangdong men! Follow me and defend Wuchang City. This is our only chance to survive!"

"Marquis Wu will not abandon us. He will definitely come back to save us!"

...

At dusk, flags with the word "Liu" on them were raised on the four gates of Wuchang.

Xiao He was escorted out of the city by Guan Yinping and Deng Ai, and was already sitting in the prefectural government office, wrapped in fox fur, sneezing, and drinking hot tea.

Guan Yu was worried about his health, so when they passed Fancheng, he insisted that he get off the boat and go into the city to rest and recuperate.

Xiao He thought that Sun Quan's defeat was imminent, and the next battle was just the end, so there was really no need for him to follow him.

Although this cold was not a serious illness, he did feel uncomfortable and was not suitable for the hard work of traveling by boat or carriage. So he simply followed Guan Yu's advice and stayed in the newly captured city of Wuchang.

"Military Advisor, these are the maids… servants we captured in the government office. Could you please tell us how to… deal with them?"

Deng Ai asked, pointing at the dozen or so women kneeling outside the hall.

This is the government office of the Jiangxia prefect appointed by Sun Quan. Naturally, there are many maids in the mansion. The city was broken suddenly, and these people had no time to escape and could only hide in the mansion.

Since Xiao He was about to move in, Deng Ai ordered his personal guards to search the mansion, and found these maids who were hiding here and there.

now.

Bu Lianshi, who had changed into a maid's attire, mingled among these maids, not daring to reveal her identity.

Hearing the name of "military advisor", her heart was shocked and she couldn't help but become curious. She raised her head and secretly looked into the hall, but she could only see a back.

"How have these people been dealt with in the past?"

Xiao He in the hall asked casually while sipping tea.

"According to custom, they should be handed over to the officials for centralized custody... and in the future, they might be awarded to meritorious officers, or given to soldiers as... wives."

"Of course, if the military advisor finds any that he likes, he can pick a few to stay and serve as maids...maidens, and continue to serve the military advisor."

Deng Ai answered truthfully.

Upon hearing this, Guan Yinping frowned and glared at Deng Ai with her almond-shaped eyes.

Without waiting for Xiao He to speak, Guan Yinping waved her hand:
"Then let's follow the usual practice and hand them all over to the authorities for disposal."

As soon as these words were spoken, Bu Lianshi, who was kneeling outside the hall, was immediately shocked.

After all, I am a lady from a wealthy family and the daughter of the Bu family. Am I really going to become a slave and be assigned to be a soldier in the future?

Seeing that Xiao He didn't say anything, Deng Ai was about to do as Guan Yinping said.

"Cough cough cough~~"

Xiao He coughed and spat out several mouthfuls of tea.

Guan Yinping leaned over to help him stretch his back, frowning and saying:

"I don't know when Dr. Hua will arrive. You can't afford to delay your illness. Why don't I go and get a medical officer to examine you first?"

The words trailed off.

When Bu Lianshi, who was kneeling outside the hall, heard this, she jumped up suddenly as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw.

"I...I know medicine, and I can treat the military advisor!"

(End of this chapter)